by NONA BLYTH CLOUD
Religion and Science — two different approaches to the questions, How Does Stuff Work? and Why Do Things Happen?
When you start with the same questions, you often uncover similar answers. The Elements, for example.
The “basic four”— Earth, Air, Water and Fire — show up in religions all around the world, and they’re fundamental to alchemy, one of the stepping-stones to Science. So this week, we’ll be looking at Earth through the lens of poetry, and over the next three weeks at each of the other elements.
Earth — our home — and earth, the element where rooted life begins and grows, which in turn nourishes the unrooted life that moves by foot or wing or wriggle.










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